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A new family of capillary waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck  and
Joseph B. Keller
Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck
Affiliation:
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012 Present address: Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, CA 94305.
Joseph B. Keller
Affiliation:
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012 Present address: Department of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, California 94305.
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Abstract

A new family of finite-amplitude periodic progressive capillary waves is presented. They occur on the surface of a fluid of infinite depth in the absence of gravity. Each pair of adjacent waves touch at one point and enclose a bubble at pressure P. P depends upon the wave steepness s, which is the vertical distance from trough to crest divided by the wavelength. Previously Crapper found a family of waves without bubbles for 0 [les ] s [les ] s* = 0·730. Our solutions occur for all s > s** = 0·663, with the trough taken to be the bottom of the bubble. As s → ∞, the bubbles become long and narrow, while the top surface tends to a periodic array of semicircles in contact with one another. The solutions were obtained by formulating the problem as a nonlinear integral equation for the free surface. By introducing a mesh and difference method, we converted this equation into a finite set of nonlinear algebraic equations. These equations were solved by Newton's method. Graphs and tables of the results are included. These waves enlarge the class of phenomena which can occur in an ideal fluid, but they do not seem to have been observed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 98 , Issue 1 , 15 May 1980 , pp. 161 - 169
Copyright
© 1980 Cambridge University Press

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